Day: April 22, 2009

Did anyone catch what Hillary Clinton said today in response to questions about Obama’s chatting it up with Venezuela’s Socialist dictator Hugo Chavez?

At a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing this afternoon, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended her boss’s foreign policy views in a way that seemed to suggest that she personally holds a different view than does President Obama, but that he beat her in the Democratic presidential primaries, so his view wins.

The remark came after Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., challenged Clinton on “the issue of the president being photographed with the virulent anti-American socialist dictator of Venezuela,” President Hugo Chavez.

The Indiana Republican quoted remarks then-Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y., made in July 2007 regarding potential meetings with the leaders of North Korea, Venezuela, or Cuba: “I will not promise to meet with the leaders of these countries during my first year. I don’t want to be used for propaganda purposes.”
Pence asked: “In light of your previously stated insight, isn’t it true that having the president of the United States be seen on the world stage warmly greeting a virulent anti-American socialist dictator that intentionally or unintentionally our president was used ‘for propaganda purposes,’ to borrow the phrase that you used?”

Said Clinton: “President Obama won the election. He beat me in a primary, in which he put forth a different approach. And he is now our president, and we all want our president, no matter of which party, to succeed, especially in such a perilous time.”

She said more after that, but wow – she really made it all about her to start with. She’s learned well from her boss. Or maybe he learned it from her.

Just came to me: Now that the cat is out of the box regarding the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques – to the delight of liberals across the country but to the detriment of our safety and security, I think it’s safe to say that their “outrage” over the alleged “outting” of Valerie Plame due to “national security” concerns was more like …

Fauxtrage!

Really. Can these people possibly be anymore transparent in their anti-Bush/Cheney agendas? They’re playing games with our national security – as usual. And if it costs lives, we’ll know exactly where to look when the fingerpointing starts.